Version 3 is a complete rebuild. New design, widgets, Live Activities, Siri Shortcuts, and an Apple Watch app. As always no subscription, no data collected.
Built to support your practice
Lotus Bud is a meditation timer built for practitioners who want a focused tool that respects the work they do. No content library, social network, music player or other distractions standing between you and the cushion. Just you and the cushion.
FREE FEATURES
• Simple timed or untimed meditation
• Widgets and Live Activities: Start a session directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Track elapsed time throughout your sit with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
°Siri Shortcuts: Start, pause, or end sessions with your voice. Create automations using your meditation data to make regular practice easier to maintain.
• Apple Watch app
• Assistive Access: For those using Assistive Access Lotus Bud offers a dramatically simplified user experience.
PAID FEATURES (one time purchase)
• Custom Meditation Plans: Create structured sessions with multiple steps, custom durations, and lead-in countdowns. Build a sequence that matches your practice, whether you need a simple timer or a detailed progression. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, you can just describe the plan you want to create a new one.
• Insights: Understand how your practice develops over time with streaks, rolling averages, tag breakdowns, and calendar heat maps. Review your consistency and identify patterns in your sessions.
• Intentions: Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals for meditation time or session frequency. Progress updates help you stay connected to the intentions you set.
• Private logs: Write private notes about your sits, observations, and experiences. Keep your reflections alongside your practice without sharing them publicly. With Apple Intelligence you get tag suggestions that help you categorize your notes.
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I started building Lotus Bud more than fifteen years ago to support my own daily practice. My hope was to create a tool that could support others as they develop a deeper meditation practice.
Meditation has profoundly changed my life for the better, but that change required ongoing effort and focus. I had to do the work myself, and Lotus Bud has helped me stay on track.
Many meditation apps focus on relaxation and stress reduction. Meditation can certainly support both, but it can also become a deeper, long-term practice that fundamentally changes how you relate to the world, your loved ones and yourself. Lotus Bud is designed for people who want to build and understand that practice without unnecessary distractions or dependence on extra content.
I am the sole designer and developer of Lotus Bud. I built it, along with the related Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell app, because I use these tools in my own practice and hope they can benefit others. I aim to make Lotus Bud useful, simple, accessible and beautiful while giving you the space to practice on your own terms.
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Try Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell to support mindfulness throughout the day. It plays randomized bells that invite you to pause and return your attention to the present moment.
It's basic and what is needed if you feel like you need a special app to meditate. It's got a good bell. Could use a couple updates. But it works. Be better if there were a way to turn the 'journal' prompt off. Or even a delay to set before the beginning bell. It isn't ugly and it doesn't try to sell you other stuff. It doesn't have any social networking crap. It beats setting the egg timer in the kitchen. Worth a download.
Perfect for all levels
Grateful yogi
I've tried nearly every meditation app in the store, and kept running into the same problem, time limits. For me 1hr is minimum, which many apps restrict you to as the max. This is the best app I've found that will let me meditate for however long I want. I like that there's no silly options like bragging my success across social media, and it doesn't try to be cute, just clean. It's a timer with a nice bell. It has a couple other options if you want them- like reminders and goal setting. Well done, thank you for this app!
No Health app sync
Bezfilma
Nice, but doesn’t sync with Health app to track your mindfulness minutes.
Great app!
2002ss
Works just as they intend. Very simple. Just the way I like. Would be nice to have 2 reminders...considering you should meditate twice a day.
Changes in this release
• Added a confirm tap for widget starts – Lock Screen widgets and Control Center ask for a second tap, so a stray touch won't start a meditation
• Fixed the Log jumping back to the list on iPhone – Choosing another meditation in the Log now opens it reliably
• Ensures meditation view is visible – When starting a meditation from a widget, ensures that if another tab is visible, the meditation tab is active while the meditation is.
• Bug fixes – Lots of bug fixes to make everything smoother and more reliable
Included with Intention & Reflection purchase
• Added Extend meditation – Keep sitting after your plan's final bell, with no end time. The extra minutes are saved with your session.
• Added practice recaps – Look back on your week, month, or year with totals, highlights, intention progress, and top tags
Version 3.2.0
The developer, Chad Sager, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Chad Sager
Size
63.4 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 27.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 27.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 27.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 27.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
